Followed a previous poster's advice and cut back and stripped any damage wire to bare clean copper, wired everything back up in the new socket i bought and still same problem happening- socket appears live but nothing works in it.
I've attched a couple of pics of the isolation switch for the socket that's located above the worktop in case anybody has any other suggestions on if this might be the cause rather than the socket underneath, otherwise i'm going to have to get a sparky mate in and give him a few quid to sort it all out.
No, never been a problem yet.
I suppose in reality either fuse COULD blow.
In any case, if the fuse in the plug blew, the appliance would need to be dragged out anyway for repair.
Handy to have a switched fused spur anyway if an integrated appliance was ever fitted, so a flex outlet could be fitted whilst a fuse still being in place.
Admittedly an unswitched fused spur could be used behind the integrated appliance, but I suppose the fuse might as well be accessible...
Not that any of this will help the op...
Well well. That isolation switch looks like a switched fused connection unit. As you have a fuse in the plug a second one is not required so get it replaced with a real isolation switch at the same time.